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South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865 · scan page 74

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G6  MINISTRY    OF  REV.  MR.  NOYES.
difFerciit  state  of  things  in  tlie  same  congregation
under  different  ministers,  except  by  attributing  it,  or
much  of  it,  directly  or  indirectly,  to  the  ministers
themselves.  This  is  on  the  supposition  that  the  com-
])laint  of  Mr.  Noyes  on  this  head  was  well  founded,
which,  to  the  extent  indicated  by  his  remarks,  we
must  be  permitted  to  doubt.
2.  "  A  second  element  of  weakness  and  injury  to  the
Church,  is  the  neglect  of  wise  discipline."
Never  until  the  preaching  of  this  Sermon,  did  we
hear  it  intimated  that  Mr.  Noyes  was  more  ready  to
administer  "  wise  discipline"  to  delinquent  members,
than  were  tlie  great  majority  of  his  Church.  We
had  heard,  that  in  regard  to  two  Scotch  people  whom
it  was  proposed  to  discipline  on  account  of  the  sale
and  use  of  intoxicating  liquors,  Mr.  Noyes  objected
to  doing  it  at  that  time,^  because,  he  said,  the  Scotch
were  clannish,  and  if  some  of  them  were  offended,
they  might  all  be,  and  leave.  [A  Scotch  minister
was  then  preaching  once  or  twice  on  the  Sabbatli  in
Dr.   Cleaveland's   Lecture  Koom,   and   some  of  our
*  On  inquiring  of  some  who  were  tlien  members  of  the  Standing
Committee,  we  learn  that  we  wore  not  misniformed;  and  lliat  in  the
matter  of  discipline  generally,  Mr.  Noyes  was  certainly  not  in  advance
of  the  other  members  of  the  Committee  in  his  efforts  to  promote  it.
According  to  the  rules  of  the  Church,  it  is  made  the  duty  of  the  Stand-
ing Committee  to  "examine  and  report  on  all  cases  of  discipline."  If
then  the  Standing  Committee,  (of  which  Mr.  Xoyes  was  ex-officio  a
member,  and  by  position  the  leading  memlicr,)  did  not  do  their  duty,
why  reproach  the  Church  f>r  the  Conmiittee's  own  neglect?

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P004-0074. South Congregational Church history and catalogue, 1852–1865, printed page not verified, PDF page 74. Hallock, Gerard, 1800-1866; digitized copy contributed by University of California Libraries https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthco00hall/page/n76/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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